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Aerial view of the seven original shipways of Kaiser Richmond Shipyard No. 1, early 1943. The large buildings in the upper right are the prefabrication sheds and Shipyard No. 2 is beyond them.	Aerial view of the tower, hangars, and pad at Borinquen Field, Puerto Rico, 1943. Aircraft seen include C-46, C-47, C-54, B-17, B-25, B-18, B-34, A-20, and perhaps others.

Aerial view of US battleship Massachusetts, 1943; note OS2U Kingfisher float planes on the fantail catapults	African-American factory workers Cecil M. Coles and Juanita E. Gray working on a lathe machine, which the latter was being trained to use, Washington, DC, United States, date unknown

African-American pilots of the US Army 15th AAF squadron, date unknown; The Three Minute Egg Club denotes they had returned to base from combat with less than 3 minutes' worth of fuel at least once	African-American sailor George C. Fields, formerly Franklin Roosevelt's valet, showing his honor certificate from US Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Illinois, United States, circa 1943

African-American swing musician Earl 'Fatha' Hines with US Army Private Charles Carpenter, his former manager, Camp Lee, Virginia, United States, date unknown	African-American Theodore R. Poston, head of the Negro Press Section of the US Office of War Information, date unknown

African-American troops of the US Army performing daily rifle calisthenics, Field Artillery Replacement Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, United States, Feb 1943	African-American US Army pilots being briefed for a practice bombing raid, Selfridge Field, Michigan, United States, 1943

African-American US Army Private Harry Mills of the Mill Brother jazz quartet putting on a song at a jukebox, Fort Custer, Michigan, United States, 1943	African-American US Army soldiers listening to music on a jukebox, date unknown

African-American US Coast Guard sailor smiling as he read a letter from home, date unknown	African-American US Marines aboard an US Coast Guard-manned transport in the Pacific, date unknown

African-American US Marines in battery drill, Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States, circa 1943	African-American US Marines in exercise, Camp Lejeune, Jacksonville, North Carolina, United States, circa 1943

African-American women working at the US Army Savannah Quartermaster Depot, Savannah, Georgia, United States, circa 1943	After an aborted landing, an F4F-4 Wildcat bolters around the island of the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.

Albacore torpedo bombers of No. 820 Squadron FAA from HMS Formidable in flight, over the Indian Ocean off Mombasa, Kenya, date unknown	Altar prepared for midnight mass for the Christmas holiday at a US Army Medical Detachment 1340 facility, Fiji, 1942-1944